{"id":415867,"date":"2025-12-03T16:32:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=415867"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:32:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:32:37","slug":"climate-crisis-the-french-are-uprooting-vines-to-reduce-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=415867","title":{"rendered":"Climate Crisis? The French are Uprooting Vines to Reduce Production"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by<\/strong> Eric Worrall<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember all those times you\u2019ve been told wine is facing a climate crisis?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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France blames climate change for \u2018deteriorating\u2019 wine industry. But is uprooting vines the solution?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Liam Gilliver<\/a>
Published on 29\/11\/2025 \u2013 8:00 GMT+1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

France says it is \u2018determined\u2019 to rescue the wine industry from a crisis, but could its plan backfire?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

France has turned to the European Union for help after announcing additional funds to help rescue its \u201cdeteriorating\u201d wine industry.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Earlier this week, the French Agriculture Ministry confirmed it has allocated \u20ac130 million to finance a new, permanent vine-pulling plan to \u201crebalance supply\u201d and \u201crestore the viability\u201d of struggling farms in the most vulnerable regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This process involves severing and lifting the vines and their roots from the soil, usually using specialised equipment like a deep plough, and can cost around \u20ac1,000 per hectare. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minister Annie Genevard has also asked the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Food, Chrisophe Hansen, to finance the crisis distillation of non-marketable overstocks. This is where excess supply is turned into alcohol used for industrial purposes rather than consumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It comes after Donald Trump<\/a><\/strong> threatened to impose a 200 per cent tariff on European alcohol earlier this year, a move which was quickly rescinded. However, a 15 per cent tariff on exports to the US, a crucial market for the French wine industry, was announced several months later.

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To top it all off, Genevard argued the sector\u2019s suffering has been compounded byclimate change<\/strong><\/a>, which has \u201crepeatedly impacted harvests\u201d for several years.

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2025\/11\/29\/france-blames-climate-change-for-deteriorating-wine-industry-but-is-uprooting-vines-the-so<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s all President Trump\u2019s fault of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you imagine some government official coming onto a US farmer\u2019s land, and telling them they have to uproot some of their crops, to help the farmer next door avoid bankruptcy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What really strikes me about this story is the problem is overproduction \u2013 yet we are continuously told the wine industry is suffering a climate crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Wall Street Journal\u2019s Left Turn on Climate Change Is Unjustified, the \u2018Finer Things in Life\u2019 Are Widely Available<\/a><\/blockquote>